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Originally Posted by Wontonion
I'm trying to find the best Ebook Reader (with autoscroll) + Dictionary Lookup combination. I tried ubook but found the text blurry. I had a problem with mobipocket where, if i saw a word i didn't recognize and wanted to look it up in autoscroll, it flipped a page ahead. (then i had to scroll back, find the word, look it up--too many steps.) ...
... My question: can anyone recommend a good reader + dictionary combo that offers all the features i like (autoscroll, inverse color scheme, full justification) and a comprehensive dictionary? i'm willing to shell out the bucks for a dictionary from one of these reader-software places, if only it worked with just a few taps.
Thanks.
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Try Mobipocket again. I have used it withthe Oxford Press books (I bought the dictionary, thesaurus, and dictionaries of foreign words in English, Idioms, and Computing Terms), and it's lovely. Offers all the features you ask for, though I think you'd have to register the reader to get autoscroll. You can pick any color scheme you like, add fonts to your \Windows\fonts\ directory and use them in Mobi (I use Comic Sans, Trebuchet, and Arial), and highlight/annotate/edit ebooks (again, some features are for the registered version). Offers ClearType, but I find that only works well in black on white and white on black. For nighttime reading I like to do this....
The dictionaries work in the freeware version of the Reader.
If you can't get a definition in autoscroll, I suspect you must first exit autoscroll. On my version, when I stop autoscroll, it does not page down, but stop at the LAST page displayed.